Verb

(en verb)

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun.

to proceed on a journey.

To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.

To proceed with a story or argument.

To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from.

Light proceeds from the sun.

To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.

* John Locke

he that proceeds upon other Principles in his Enquiry

To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

* Shakespeare

He will, after his sour fashion, tell you / What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.

To have application or effect; to operate.

* Ayliffe

This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence.

To begin and carry on a legal process. (rfex)

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To extend in space or length.

(label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}

(label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.